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Summary: Learn about additional acoustic slide guitar techniques for Dobro guitar in this free Dobro guitar video.
Ed Dowling has played acoustic guitar in open tunings for 39 years, as well as mandolin for 20 years. He builds his own guitars, has written a book called Understanding Open...read more
"Hi! I”m Ed Dowling from eddowling.com. I'm going to do a little more talking about techniques for playing slide guitar for expertvillage.com. We've gone over basically an open A, learned the open chord that would let you know all of the other chords. In this case, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and back to A. I came straight down. I could sneak up by using the slide. Instead of going A to D this way, I can go. So the slide is what...The basic technique for playing slide guitar is to slide in and out of your chords. We're using the slide for it's dedicated purpose, one of it's dedicated purposes. Let's look at another technique for slide guitar, the vamp - we're stopping the note. The vamp. Let's look at one more, the Warble - Country music. Playing a number of strings with these and this, your slide. Only the bass noes. A little more slide guitar. "